LONDON (AP) — Three-time Olympic rowing champion Pete Reed says he has become partially paralyzed from a stroke.

Reed won a gold medal for Britain at each of the last three Olympics before...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The governing body of rowing says para-rower Dzmitry Ryshkevich died after his boat capsized during training at the world championships in Austria.

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The University of Connecticut has agreed to pay a $17 million exit fee to the American Athletic Conference, so the school can rejoin the Big East next year.

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State has fired women's rowing coach Matt Weise.

Athletic department spokesman Matt Larson confirmed Friday that athletic director Bill Beekman told Weise...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Officials say a fundraising campaign has raised $4.5 million to dredge Philadelphia's Schuylkill River to remove a silt buildup that raised concerns about possible loss of...

ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) — Maximilian Reinelt, an Olympic gold medalist rower from Germany who was a long-time member of the country's successful men's eights crew, has died. He was 30.

Police in the Swiss canton (state) of Graubuenden said Reinelt collapsed while cross-country skiing in St. Moritz over the weekend. The cause of death was not announced.

Reinelt won Olympic gold at the 2012 London Games and silver four years later in Rio de Janeiro.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A World War II memorabilia collector in France has found paratrooper gear carried by an American D-Day veteran who went on to become an accomplished athlete before being slain at his Buffalo workplace in the 1970s.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Two countries. One significant medal.

A combined Koreas crew earned a historic bronze medal at the Asian Games on Saturday by finishing third in the women's 200-meter dragon boat final behind China and games host Indonesia.

It was the first time a combined team from North Korea and South Korea has won a medal at a major multi-sport international event.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With the Koreas, there's no separating their sports from their politics.

The war-separated rivals will take their reconciliation steps to the Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia, where they will jointly march in the opening ceremony and field combined teams in basketball, rowing and canoeing.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — The Syracuse men's rowing team is returning to compete in the famed Henley Royal Regatta.

The Orange men will be making their first appearance in the regatta on the River Thames in 11 years. They are one of nine Division I U.S. teams competing in the Temple Challenge Cup.

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A military flight instructor in Mississippi who is recovering from a brain tumor has found success at a sports competition.

The Starkville Daily News reports Air Force Capt. Hunter Barnhill competed in early June at the Department of Defense Warrior Games at the U.S. Air Force Academy. About 300 wounded or ill military members or veterans participated.

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Three University of Delaware students were watching truTV's "Impractical Jokers," the hidden-camera reality series, just for fun, not with the idea that it would change the course of their lives.

RYE, N.H. (AP) — Students in New Hampshire who spent a year building boats in a school workshop are set to race their creations this week in a first-ever regatta.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Crews have recovered the body of a renowned rowing coach after he fell from a boat into Northern California's Lake Natoma.

The Sacramento Bee reports rescue crews recovered the body of 66-year-old John Hooten Jr. Tuesday, a day after he suddenly fell overboard while navigating a single rowing shell.

DALLAS (AP) — Members of the SMU women's rowing team have sued the school, alleging gender discrimination and negligence led to hip injuries.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — If you skipped most of your workouts to be more "present" during the holiday festivities and aren't looking forward to getting back on the treadmill, we feel you. We rounded some of the workouts that have fitness fans talking to keep you motivated. Do them at home, in the studio, on a trampoline or a lake (gasp) — whatever it takes to get moving.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Simon Dickie, who coxed New Zealand rowing crews to Olympic victories at Mexico City in 1968 and Munich in 1972, has died. He was 66.

Rowing New Zealand announced his death, but gave no details.

Dickie was only 17 when he was a member of the coxed four when won New Zealand's first Olympic gold medal in rowing at Mexico City.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia police are calling a group of rowers heroes after they helped rescue a woman who became trapped after her car crashed into a river.

Authorities say the 61-year-old woman crashed into the Schuylkill (SKOO'-kul) River around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A captain of the Portland Spirit cruise ship has been suspended because of a close call with rowers last month.

Though no one was hurt, Portland Spirit president Dan Yates tells The Oregonian/OregonLive he took the action to make sure his captains know they must err on the side of caution.

BOSTON (AP) — Two Connecticut teens are making history at this weekend's Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston.

Quinlan Daly and George Lathrop, both of East Norwalk, will be the youngest youth doubles team ever to scull the renowned rowing race. The 13-year-old friends row out of the Maritime Rowing Club in Norwalk.

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — The wife of an Allman Brothers Band founding member has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for pointing a rifle at members of a rowing team in Florida.

News outlets report that 62-year-old Donna Betts reported to the Sarasota County jail last week to begin serving her sentence. She previously pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. The wife of guitarist Dickey Betts had initially been charged with 18 counts.

FLEMINGTON, N.J. (AP) — In a few days from now, Tyler Carnevale will be on top of the world — in the physical and spiritual sense.

He will be rowing about 1,200 miles across the Arctic Ocean with five other men, trying to complete the kind of record-breaking endurance adventure he lives for.

For the next three weeks, Carnevale and his boat mates will row on a schedule of two hours on, two hours off, around the clock, in a place where, this time of year, the sun never sets.

CRAFTSBURY, Vt. (AP) — After years of conflict between a rowing center and summer cottage owners over use of a northern Vermont pond, the state is proposing to limit the hours that scullers can be on the water.

The draft rules would create scull-free times during summer months on Great Hosmer Pond.